August 2026
This round is still underway and has had 22 goos so far. Start playing!
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (21 goos solved) and Richard Slominsky (20 goos solved).
Penny Johnson Jerald
She isn't a lawyer from North Carolina. She's a TV actress who must have so enjoyed playing a ship captain and eventual wife in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that she went on to play a different kind of captain in Castle, a different kind of wife in 24, and in a different kind of Star Trek in The Orville. Go »
George H. Ross
He isn't an uncle from Pennsylvania. He's a corporate lawyer most famous for his advice about which apprentice to fire. Go »
Willie Huber
He wasn't a lawyer from North Carolina. He was a German-Canadian all-star who was the biggest thing in the NHL. Go »
Johnny "J"
He wasn't a diplomat from New York. He was a massively successful record producer from South Central L.A., whose association with Death Row Records became a sad predictor of his fate. Go »
Alice Hamilton
She wasn't a banker from New York. She was Harvard's first female faculty member and an industrial health expert who helped America get the lead out. Go »
John Langdon Down
He wasn't a politician from New Hampshire. He was the British physician who first described a common syndrome, though he might not have used such racist terms to classify it if he'd known that his own grandson would be born with it. Ooh-wah-ah-ah-ah! Go »
William Jackson Harper
He isn't a secretary from South Carolina. He's an actor who stayed in a Mexican resort that turned out to be a place far more good for his health than the Swedish commune he visited a few summers ago. Go »
John Walton
He wasn't a surveyor from Georgia. He was a Silver Star vet, aviation enthusiast, and venture capitalist who used his family's retail fortune to fund scholarships. Go »
Frances Benjamin Johnston
She wasn't a polymath from Pennsylvania. She was a journalist who discovered a love of photography as art, who used her connections with the White House and other institutions to take pictures of such notable Americans as Mark Twain, William Howard Taft, Edith Wharton, George Washington Carver, Susan B. Anthony, Daniel Coit Gilman, Booker T. Washington, George Dewey, Isadora Duncan, and Teddy, Edith & Alice Roosevelt. Go »
Benedict Wong
His problem is that two other somebodies share his name: His MCU co-star and his MCU character. Go »
Jean Stapleton
Her real family included opera singing, Vaudeville performing, and stage acting. Her screen Family sang about days that were and called her a dingbat. Go »
Kathryn Stockett
The reception greeting her second book has been the opposite of calamitous, which should be helpful in making it a success like her first. Go »
Ms. Rachel
She has sung to toddlers billions of times on YouTube, but her outspoken criticism of ICE and Israel has made her voice controversial. Go »
John Byrne
This controversial creator has written and drawn many famous superheroes, but he's most famous for burning down the house (of ideas) in X-Men comics: He created or co-created Dark Phoenix, Days of Future Past, Kitty Pryde, Bishop, Alpha Flight, and Wolverine's brown costume. Go »
